Description

• Interior signage should employ visual elements to aid navigation, enhance safety, and convey information to residents and visitors. Effective design should prioritize clarity and consistency, include tactile elements for accessibility, easily readable fonts, clear symbols, or icons for wayfinding, and have consistent placement.

Baseline

• Building lobby and hallway corridor directional marking shall be placed or a sign posted in a conspicuous location in the elevator lobby or other public entry on each floor, and in the public corridor. Such markings or signs are not required where the entrances to dwelling units are dwelling units are located along a single corridor.
• All apartment buildings that are not protected by a sprinkler system and have more than 8 apartments on a floor, are required to install the fire emergency markings on apartment and stairwell door jambs.
• All apartments are required to have the apartment number clearly marked at eye level on the main entrance door to the apartment, in the building corridor.
• Apartment Entrance Doors
  • Each dwelling unit shall be marked or have a sign identifying the apartment letters and/or number that is conspicuously posted on or adjacent to the entrance door, on the public corridor side of the door. Fire emergency markings shall be placed on the public corridor side of doors. The fire emergency marking letters and/or numbers shall not be more than 12 inches above the floor.
  • Many apartment buildings are now required to post or mark the apartment number on the door jamb, at floor level. These reflective or luminous “fire emergency markings” will help the Fire Department locate your apartment during a fire or smoke condition when the eyelevel door numbers are not visible.
  • Provide apartment number door signs. [COMPMOD]
• Exit Doors
  • Exit and exit access doors shall be marked by an approved exit sign visible from any direction of egress travel.
  • Each stairwell door in any building shall be identified as a stairwell door by placing the fire emergency marking required by NYC Fire Code on the door jamb on the hinged side of the stairwell door in the public corridor. This requirement does not apply to any building with photoluminescent exit path markings on stairwell entrance doors; any building protected throughout by a sprinkler system.
  • In high-rise buildings exit signs shall be placed within exits at horizontal extensions to indicate the transition from vertical to horizontal direction and at turns along the horizontal path.
  • Provide floor number signs in stairwells. [COMPMOD]
  • Provide all exit and emergency signage as required by applicable codes. [COMPMOD]
• Assume new comprehensive and cohesive building signage and campus wayfinding. Typical signage includes but is not limited to No loitering, No smoking, NYCHA rules, Garbage disposal procedure, Customer Contact Center details, and Lead. [PACT]

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Last Updated on July 17, 2024 at 1:03 pm